Cookie Monster Research Paper

The Cookie Monster is a character on the beloved children’s educational television program Sesame Street, a character easily recognized by his bright blue fur, googly eyes, and appetite that is unable to be satisfied. He is also well known for his simplistic diction and his enormous non-stop craving for cookies. Obviously, as his name implies, the Cookie Monster is a monster of some sort. Alongside his adorable yet not very developed personality are a set of traits that, according to those who watch him regularly, could be considered monstrous. Beginning with his looks, the Cookie Monster’s bright blue fur and googly eyes are something that all of American society, not only the children who watch the show but also their parents, find to be …show more content…
Yet he is still considered a monster. Norman Stiles, the writer for Sesame Street, said about the Cookie Monster in an interview, “He's not gonna knock anybody over to get the cookie. He's gonna try to get around them to get the cookie. He's gonna beg for the cookie." In this quote, Stiles is trying to stress the point that the Cookie Monster is completely harmless and would never injure anyone, even to get the thing he desires the most. The Cookie Monster is an innocuous creature, yet is still considered a monster by adults and children alike. The Cookie Monster may not be dangerous in the most literal sense of the word, but according to Cohen, “The monster is dangerous, a form suspended between forms that threatens to smash distinctions.” With this, Cohen proves perfectly that a monster does not have to be threatening to human life in order to be a monster, it just has to threaten the walls of categorization that are created by the members of any society to create social norms. The Cookie Monster, very easily, refuses to be put into any specific category of characters, causing him to be outcasted and ruin the idea of even categorizing the